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On Friday 15th August, to celebrate the end of Five Fantastic Facts Week, I shared my top five personal favourites. But I want to know which of these are most popular with families across the globe!
Here's a quick reminder of the facts - you can then vote for your family's favourite below.
Jake's top five Fantastic Facts
🦋 Butterflies taste with their feet
Believe it or not, butterflies don’t use their mouths to taste - they use their feet. When a butterfly lands on a plant, tiny sensors on its feet help it ‘taste’ the leaves and flowers. This helps the butterfly decide if it’s a good place to lay eggs or find food. It’s like having taste buds in your toes - how about that?!
🇫🇷 The Eiffel Tower grows in the summer
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is made of iron, and guess what? It actually grows taller when it gets hot. When the metal heats up, it expands, so in the summer, the Eiffel Tower can grow by about 6 inches (15 cm). When the weather cools down, it shrinks back again. It’s like the tower is stretching in the sunshine - lovely stuff
🌎 You could fit over a million earths inside the Sun
The Sun is HUGE - so big that you could fit more than one million Earths inside it. It’s by far the biggest thing in our solar system and gives us light, warmth, and energy every day. Even though it looks small from far away, the Sun is actually so gigantic that it would take over 100 Earths just to stretch across its middle
🌵 The Cardon cactus can grow as high as four giraffes
In the deserts of Mexico, there’s a giant cactus called the cardon cactus, and it can grow to be over 60 feet tall - that’s as high as four giraffes stacked on top of each other! It’s the tallest cactus in the world and can live for hundreds of years. It stores water inside its thick, ribbed body to survive the hot, dry desert
🦕 You have (probably) drunk the same water as a dinosaur
Water on Earth keeps getting recycled over and over, so there’s a really good chance that the water in your cup once flowed through a dinosaur millions of years ago. Earth’s water doesn’t disappear - it just changes forms, moving through oceans, clouds, rivers, and even living things, like us. So next time you take a sip, imagine a T. rex slurping from a river long, long ago
Time to vote!
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Which is your family's favourite fantastic fact?
Thanks for voting, fact-fans!
To find out the winner, keep an ear on the show in early September (or come back here after the poll has closed on 30th August 👀 ).
Don't forget, if your kid has a topic they'd like to suggest for Five Fantastic Facts, you can submit it for them on the Yoto Daily page.